when it was a vibrant, bustling American city -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYiTsoRqHU
Added bonus: Very attractive young lady at 0:22.
when it was a vibrant, bustling American city -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYiTsoRqHU
Added bonus: Very attractive young lady at 0:22.
It’ll get worse.
Your current (crazy) immigration system for all practical matters, favours a law-breaking 17 year old from Mexico with a third grade education over a British neurosurgeon or a German engineer.
I guess that must have been before all those Tea Partiers came to dominate Detroit's municipal politics and turned it into a raging free market haven with no government, unions, regulations or taxes.
Looks like a bunch of racist single-minded robotic white people in that picture.
I'm from Detroit, grew up there during that era, and have very fond memories of spending my childhood Saturdays at the DIA, DPL, and J.L.Hudson department store which was the second largest in the country.
The thing you have to realize though, is that white flight to the suburbs had already begun in the 1940's after the first race riots, and by the time that footage was shot, downtown Detroit was a virtual ghost town after 6:00pm, unlike other cities such as SF, Chicago, and New York.
Also, the immigration policies and quotas the second poster alluded to have been in place for decades, so this all didn't start overnight.
However, when you examine the net effect of such policies it makes you wonder why the planners and policy-makers didn't have the foresight to see what would happen? If someone had intended to do this to Detroit, they couldn't have been more effective.
^^yup, what's happened to Detroit is all the white man's fault for moving to the suburbs. If only he had embraced the spirit of equality, given all his money to the municipal government, and remained in the most run-down urban environments he could find, George W Bush would never have gotten elected and the blacks in Detroit would all be blinged out with ice in their grills today. It's so racist that Eminem and Macklemoore won Grammys...everyone knows Ja Rule was the rightful winner of best rap album in 2002. God I love being a liberal, aka an idiot.
100% Bush's fault wrote:
I guess that must have been before all those Tea Partiers came to dominate Detroit's municipal politics and turned it into a raging free market haven with no government, unions, regulations or taxes.
It's a good feeling when someone get's it.
This video is pretty good too, about a guy that lives in the old Packard plant there.
Current (metro) Detroiter here. Has it ever been considered that a lot of the racial tension beginning with the 1st riot continuing through the 2nd had anything to do with the massive migration of southern whites and southern blacks to Detroit during the boom years? I'm not saying that pre-1940 Detroit was an all inclusive utopia, but were these southern influences somewhat responsible for the riots when then led to white flight?
Side note, it blows my mind to hear native Detroiters speaking with a southern accent. I believe most southern whites initially lived in Brightmoor, but it seems like they have remained a unified community in places like Hazel Park and Taylor.
Much of detroit's plight can be attributed to corrupt black mayors and incompetent black leadership with $2,500 leather chairs.
Grew up in metro Detroit also and despite my own acknowledgement of the ridiculous nature of the idea it does indeed seem like a group of people were actively engineering the downfall of Detroit. I mean how else can you explain forcible eviction of Whites in order to move Black families in? Just doesn't make sense and anyone trying to promote harmony would instantly see how ignorant this was. For all the racial tension Detroit had there were plenty of factories and factory workers who had no problem working alongside members of a different race. Even the mainstream racism of the 50's wasn't nearly as bigoted and hateful as many have been led to believe. Not to mention if you read into the origins of the race riots you will find that virtually every time they started because of some crazy and never substantiated rumor playing upon the suspicions/ bias of one group against another. Like when everyone stormed the Belle Isle bridge.. it apparently started(according to my old relatives around then) because everyone thought some black gang raped and killed a pregnant white woman. The whole thing reeks of socialist experimentation/orchestration if you ask me.
exthrower wrote:
Has there EVER been a vibrant, bustling, safe, progressive Black community? Not that I'm aware of. If I'm wrong, let me know.
You are correct. Blacks can not run a city well.
Back in the Day wrote:
when it was a vibrant, bustling American city -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYiTsoRqHUAdded bonus: Very attractive young lady at 0:22.
Except they all look unhappy.
Sexy Lady wrote:
exthrower wrote:Has there EVER been a vibrant, bustling, safe, progressive Black community? Not that I'm aware of. If I'm wrong, let me know.
You are correct. Blacks can not run a city well.
Give it time. Blacks have only been treated as 'equals' in this country now for 50 years with the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 and voting rights act of '65. You white folk have had hundreds of years to perfect it.